A Merry Note

ormery @ 2011-06-18T23:38:00

2011-06-18T22:38:58Z

Gosh I cannot believe I only have like 2 weeks left in London

Less, in fact
O_O

how am I going to deal with this!! melodramatic wailing, probably. I need to go hang out with gatty before I leave so that I can bike across Tower Bridge with Lifdoff playing again, I really enjoyed doing that.

anyway here have some ART SPAM, because it feels wrong to me not to put everything I draw on my LJ.

First have an owl tiger

everything else is Homestuck fanart because that's how I roll. and there is kind of a lot, so apologies in advance :U

SO here is a bunch of stumpy, hairy trolls with tails, because I felt like drawing Karkat this way and then hammster told me to draw Aradia and then I decided to just .. work my way up the haemospectrum. Most of them have thin tails with fluffy ends but the sea trolls are otters, I guess??

aand bonus stumpy hairy krampine!

Tygryss from Colonymired, which is worth a read!

AND NOW EVERYTHING ELSE

more Omenstuck

[08:32] thremedon: rewriting the drunk scene is proving remarkably difficult
[08:32] thremedon: mostly because both john and karkat fucking love the sound of music.
[08:33] sexy biopsy: LMAO
[08:34] sexy biopsy: godddd
[08:34] sexy biopsy: yeah.
[08:34] sexy biopsy: of course they do.
[08:35] thremedon: they watch that shit every year.
[08:35] thremedon: on the edges of their seats.
[08:35] thremedon: it is just so gripping.

11-year-old Antichrist Feferi

Karkat: Contact Heaven

miscellaneous Homestuckery

silly TPH shenanigans! Terezi pulled Karkat into a closet and the closet turned out to contain cleaning supplies. Karkat stepped in the bucket, like a pro.

adult Kanaya for the grimdark futureplot at TPH

trolljohn

troll squeak

Terezi fighting Dave, for gatty

... okay and then after I did the stumpy hairy trolls I started talking to Gatty about Hogwarts AUs
which was basically inevitable
but then I got really, really carried away.
So.

First off, here is a lineup of who is in what house
some of them are a bit wonky, because we wanted one kid and three trolls to each house, but I think this works.

This is why Terezi is in Gryffindor.

She is a terrible prefect, but she gets the job done.

Jade and Kanaya gettin their Herbology on. Kanaya was originally going to be a Gryffindor but I changed my mind.

PM is in charge of the owlery, duh. So far I've drawn carapaces as carapaces but I'm probably going to make them human, even though the trolls are staying trolls.

Snowman is Head of Slytherin and also Deputy Headmistress. John has the Marauder's Map there; he found it inside his copy of Colonel Sassacre's.

Slick is the groundskeeper. He lives on the edge of the Forbidden Forest with his small, unimposing dog. Slick went to retrieve Karkat for the school after the accidental death of his guardian, and, to Slick's irritation and dismay, Karkat has sort of latched onto him ever since. This basically means Karkat goes down to Slick's hut and unloads his many problems to him as if he expects Slick to give a shit.

Aradia and Sollux both come from Muggle backgrounds. I guess trolls just exist on Earth in this AU because I said so.

Feferi and the squid

Equius breaks his wands a lot

god whoops

2011-06-08T11:45:57Z

I am getting so bad at eljay it's awful

Anyway here is what is up in Squeakville: I am moving to Cardiff in less than a month with Pura and Claire! I am thinking of taking my cat with me, and nothing stands in my way if I decide that is a thing I am going to do, but I'm not sure if it's a great idea because it is possible that being relocated to a new place will make her flip her shit. INDECISION!

I am also WRITING A NOVEL again. Hmmm. We will see how this goes. This one is about biplanes and islands full of dinosaurs and everybody in it is queer, or at least that is what it is about so far, but I think it needs some, idk – it needs some work I don't really know what I'm doing :(

Also I have a pile of art to dump and like all of it is homestuck fanart but I am sure you can live with that. if you're following me on tumblr you have already seen all of this but i like to keep it here too.

OWL TIGER

my lovely cat

TPH – this actually happened, it was the worst camping trip ever and this is my OT3

this didn't actually happen but sollux does sleep in a filing cabinet

i dream of this happening

oohh sufferer ooh

i ship this more and more and i mostly blame quix

Okay so for the last couple of weeks basically all I have done is draw stupid Homestuck AUs, there is no excuse for this at all

SO FIRST UP: HEARTSTUCK
Organization XIII as trolls, god, what am I even
purapea is a bad influence

ignore my numeralfail lmfao
the kids are Sora, Riku, Kairi, Hayner, Pence and Olette
Naminé is the first guardian for the trolls' session
Mickey Mouse is the white king

Bec Noir is Pete, which is officially the best thing about this AU except for Larxene

she has pharyngeal jaws because her lusus is an eel

okay but then i got distracted because we watched District 9

my original intention was to draw the trolls as just sort of more insecty than they are usually drawn but still in a way that could just about feasibly be simplified into how they look in canon
BUT THEN I GOT COMPLETELY FUCKING CARRIED AWAY

and then i actually started thinking about like it having a plot and shit
where Bug Aradia digs shit up from rubbish heaps and gets Bug Sollux to mess with it in the hopes of finding a way for them to leave Earth and safe their Bug Troll Race

and then I liked it when people get turned into stuff but this picture isn't that great, I might come back to it, idk

SO I was all over THIS shit BUT THEN

this happened (if you are into both Good Omens and Homestuck i promise you will not regret clicking this, it has new year's resolutions and everything, it is beautiful)

and I had to draw the fuck out of it

1. i must accept that gluing fake arms to the sidewalk and watching events from a nearby cafe is not proper demonic activity! so i will have to start doing it more on my off days, because it is totally hilarious and great.

Karkat gets really fucking hung up on thwarting

and is terrible at feeding the ducks

and is essentially just Bernard Black but with a video rental store instead of a bookshop

John used to be called Hoppy

FURTHER RECOMMENDED READING, IF THIS IS THE KIND OF BULLSHIT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN:
IN THE BEGINNING
IN THE END

Gogol is a beautiful fucking miracle, that is really all there is to say on the matter

drawspam

2011-05-06T18:11:07Z

if you follow me on tumblr chances are you have ALREADY SEEN THIS SHIT but w/e

THE WHOLE THING NEEDS TO BE ABOUT 20% MORE ON FIRE

I was going to do more of these but I have the attention span of a gnat
still want to pattern Maximus after Big Macintosh and Lien after Princess Celestia, though

annnnd i guess ive been drawin some RP icons, need to do some more of them soonnnn

these ones were for Quix
I don't draw enough Sollux

factiontorn karkaaat
I don't mind if anyone wants to use those either but I don't really know why someone would, haha. For a moment after I drew these I was like, gosh, all this grownup Karkat I am drawing sure will come in handy if theposthumans ever has another excuse to look at WHAT EVERYONE'S CHARACTERS WOULD BE DOING IN THE FUTURE or something, because that's a thing I think about too much

but then i realised no they won't because FT Karkat is an occasionally badass rebel space captain

and TPH Karkat at the same age would be a sociology major at UNM.

I always draw FT Karkat dressing like some terrible collision between Enjolras and Han Solo, which I guess is not REALLY in keeping with the fact that he is supposed to actually pay attention to what he wears because his moirail is a bad influence (Kanaya doesn't have a reflection any more because she's undead so Karkat has had to spend the last two sweeps helping her pick outfits in lieu of a mirror), but whatever I do what I want

and here is a karkat ancestor
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW PLEASED I AM BY THESE DEVELOPMENTS

I GIVE A HUGE FUCK ABOUT THE ROYAL WEDDING

2011-04-29T13:40:46Z

a huge negative fuck

If you want to be apathetic about it that’s FINE FOR YOU I GUESS but it still fills me with rage every time I see someone being like “hur I just don’t care” as if excess media exposure is the worst aspect of the whole thing, like being apathetic is somehow subversive when it’s not because everyone acts like the fact that this country has a monarchy is no big deal all the time

Like it’s not totally sickening to see the monarchy flaunt its ill-gotten wealth while their country is having a financial crisis and watch everyone act as if this is somehow a booster of national morale

monarchy is terrible

monarchy is a tradition of institutionalised inequality completely at odds with democracy, fairness and common sense

I don’t give a fuck about the couple getting married because I don’t know them, seriously whatever, but I despise the wedding and the way it is being treated by basically everybody because it is a revoltingly ostentatious celebration of something that no country that claims to be democratic should actually have

everyone is either excited or indifferent and no one is angry and it makes me

SO

ENRAGED

I am especially sick of Americans treating it like this quaint romantic and/or humorous spectacle that the UK has a monarchy in the first place, as if not having a monarchy wasn't one of the founding principles the US was founded on
for fuck's sake

if you feel the need to disagree with me about this then please do it in the comfort of your own blog, that way I will not have to empty my stomach acids over you in a torrent of hot stinking rage vomit and everybody will be a lot happier

i am also not interested in hearing about how of course Americans treat it that way because to them the idea of queens and princesses and shit is this fairy-tale sparkly blah blah blah I KNOW AND IT MAKES ME FURIOUS STOP IT

ormery @ 2011-04-24T07:03:00

2011-04-24T06:04:00Z

HI I am back in England! I sure missed it but MAN i cannot deal with this time zone crap. It's 6am and I am not really sleepy :| :| :| I shouldn't even be jetlagged, I spent like 50 hours in an airport not sleeping. By all rights I should just be SLEEPING FOREVER now. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT IS OCCURRING. Way to go, me! It is way too warm here, too, but HEY AT LEAST IT'S SHORTS WEATHER. I am going to go the fuck out on my bike this week in my god damn shorts it's going to be AWESOME.
I am also really looking forward to going to visit purapea on her birthday! \o\ or at least for the end of it, hurrrrrr

anyway here have a sketchdump
it's all Homestuck apart from a picture of some birds with guns mounted on their faces, and all the Homestuck is for factiontorn except for a Doctor Who crossover.

Most dextrous birds use their beak and one foot to manipulate stuff and I figured it would be the same for sentient birds, but obviously it would be super impractical to have to stop like walking or whatever to press a trigger for a gun, so I guess they fire by moving their lower jaw to the side or something

ohhh how messy
i'm probably going to nice this one up as soon as I can be bothered

FT Karkat/Sollux angst
Karkat is a little too tall here hmm

FT!Tavros smuggled Tinkerbull into the military in a shoebox

the rest of this is just icon sketches I did at the airport I guess!!

BRB, POKEMON ADVENTURE

2011-03-05T01:05:44Z

/drops off the face of the internet for a week

okay that's an exaggeration but uh
i am going to be spending some ~quality time with the above fight animals (i have named them quentin, gregory, priscilla and henry beak)

SINCE YOU INSIST

2011-02-18T18:27:11Z

Hannah: kanaya is handing out asses like she is head caterer at an ass convention goddamn
Hannah: holdin' her lil tray
Hannah: goin around
Hannah: distributing asses
Squeak: charging you a heinous fucking amount
Hannah: yep.
Hannah: wearing like, a jaunty little cap?
Hannah: and each ass has a fancy fucking toothpick in it.
Squeak: and these chumps are just
Squeak: lining the fuck up
Hannah: I think you should LJ this
Squeak: akhfdgdfg
Squeak: perhaps
Hannah: I would but like 2 people on my flist read homestuck
Squeak: lmfao
Hannah: so you should do it.
Hannah: >>
Squeak: ilu!
Hannah: I am really actually going to bed now for serious
Hannah: BUT YOU SHOULD
Hannah: BECAUSE WE'RE FUNNY
Squeak: akjdhgdfkgjh
Squeak: YES WE ARE
Hannah: PLEAAAASE
Squeak: MAYBE!!!
Hannah: 8(
Hannah: ITS MY BIRTHDAY SOON!!!
Squeak: askjhfgkjdhfg
Squeak: I KNOW IT IS CHUCKLEPOB
Squeak: I KNOW
Hannah: hsdlfgdfs 8(
Hannah: youre so meaaaann!!!
Squeak: maybe when i can be assed i will lj that and the conversation about Growing Up Karkat
Hannah: gsdjlfgfdls
Hannah: yes good plan!!!!
Hannah: then everyone will know how hilarious we are!!! >D

also this i guess
The How's My Driving? Meme

also also, thank you for your various insights about bleeding
I am dubious about putting lady hormones in me for no really good reason i guess but yeah idk
also I have been really denial-y about acknowledging that this is even a thing that happens to me, more or less since it started happening? i have always had the irrational assumption in mind that it is a temporary thing whose regular occurrence will cease sooner rather than later
which is a bit silly but there you go

Daniel Radcliffe

2010-12-28T13:17:15Z

Squeak: his face is kind of scary though isn't it
Hannah: yeah
Hannah: him and zefron need to get together and have a bit of a scary faceoff
Squeak: yeah they can do weird things with their jaws together
Hannah: yes
Hannah: precisely
Squeak: daniel radcliffe will be able to communicate with zefron like other humans cannot because he is a parselmouth
Hannah: hresj,rfglsjuregjlsfslj sflddsf FUCK
Hannah: FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Hannah: FUCK!!!
Hannah: YOU OWE ME A NEW
Hannah: ...ALL THE THINGS
Hannah: omfg
Hannah: I WANT TO BE LIKE "WE MUST ALERT EVERYONE TO THIS STARTLING DEVELOPMENT" BUT ONLY WE THINK ZEFRON'S MOUTH IS SNAKELIKE
Squeak: THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS JUST THINKING
Hannah: FUCK.
Squeak: like SHIT I MUST LJ THIS AT ONCE!!! oh wait
Hannah: ow ow ow ow ow
Hannah: yeah and no one would even be able to put it down to like oh what an unlikely fandom crossover theyd just be like "the fuck is wrong with you guys"
Squeak: well, i mean, what else is new right
Hannah: ..yeah
Hannah: you could lj it and then find a photo of zefron looking really snakelike and put a link in
Squeak: but it's not even like any one picture or anything it's just
Hannah: ITS JUST HIS MOUTH
Hannah: WHEN HE SINGS
ohm nom nom: skjhfklghk;fjgh
Hannah: WHY DOES NO ONE ELSE SEE IT
Squeak: I DON'T KNOW
Squeak: BUT HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S ABOUT TO CRAWL INTO THE NEST OF A BIRD AND SWALLOW ALL OF ITS EGGS
Hannah: I feel increasingly like we have escaped some kind of earthwide alien raygun that renders other humans incapable of noticing this shit, pem!!!!
Squeak: ROFLMAO
Hannah: !!!!!
Hannah: THATS
Hannah: HOW
Hannah: I
Hannah: FEEL

Squeak: it's a shame one cannot rustle up an adequate snakemaw zefron via google image search
Squeak: idk what is with that because he makes snakeface in hsm ALL THE TIME
Hannah: the thing is
Hannah: the face is like
Hannah: the face a snake makes RIGHT BEFORE it opens its gaping jaw parts?
Squeak: LMAO yeah exactly
Hannah: so it never CULMINATES IN ACTUAL SNAKEFACE
Hannah: it's like you are constantly having snaketicipation
Squeak: it's really ... sideways
Squeak: and .. strained
Hannah: yeah.
Squeak: SO WEIRD
Hannah: no wonder I always feel sort of like I am waiting for something that will never come whenever I watch HSM
Squeak: every time it happens i am like
Squeak: but why would disney build him like that??

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HMMMM

2010-11-21T01:15:39Z

My family has a pet tortoise. She's somewhere in the region of sixty years old, and when we acquired her when I was about three or four her name was Dougal. A perusal of reference books on tortoise keeping led us to the assumption that this tortoise was in fact female, so her name was changed to Tabitha (I was big on alliteration when I was small) and we referred to her with female pronouns.

BUT! In the last couple of years my dad apparently discovered that Tabby the Tortoise's physical characteristics suggested, in fact, a male tortoise. He refers to the tortoise as "he" now and has decided that her name instead should be "Tabsly". None of the rest of us can really be bothered.

I was uneasy with myself for a moment there. I mean, I don't like being referred to as female when I am in fact male. But here is the thing: Tabby might be biologically male, but she does not have a gender identity because she is a tortoise. She is not sapient. She doesn't give a shit what pronouns we use to refer to her any more than, for example, a boat does. Our decision to refer to her as a she is kind of the equivalent of a kid assigning gender and personality to a stuffed toy animal. It's for our benefit and not hers.

My dad's decision that the tortoise ought to be a "he" is based entirely on discomfort with the idea of using female pronouns to refer to something that is biologically male.

... Hmm.

So now I am kind of wondering, is assigning pets pronouns based on their physical sex really okay? Obviously the pet cannot be bothered by it because, as mentioned previously, it does not have a gender identity, but surely perpetuating the idea that genitals = gender is a bad thing

WOW THIS SURE IS PRETTY INCONSEQUENTIAL AND PROBABLY NEEDLESSLY BRAINHURTY but boy is it bugging me now

all my future pets are going to be "it", I think

or possibly various different pronouns depending on my mood

Also, I drew some Les Trollserables because of stupid

None of these make a terrific amount of sense characterisationwise but let's face it this is exclusively for the sake of lulz. I mean, a production of Les Mis where Valjean was played like Terezi would be basically horrifying in the best possible way, imo
I think one can get away with Karkat as Enjolras if it is musical Enjolras, anyway – providing that after Sollux Pontmercy interrupts his tirade about revolution with crap about his love life, instead of shutting him down he just shouts relationship advice at him.
(also I like Sollux a lot more if I imagine him as being more like Marius, for all the no sense at all that it makes.)

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hur nur dur

2010-11-14T05:54:48Z

ha ha ha aurthour why 8(

pob & I concluded today that Kanaya should have an asston of freckles

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so today i have been actually productive

2010-11-10T21:27:41Z

really pretty darn productive!

but all I am allowed to actually share with you is some trollspam
AGAIN
sorry.

edit, while I am on the subject of homestuck: BRB NEVER SLEEPING AGAIN
EVER

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Juuust wanted to spread the word around that dA has reached new peaks of utter fail

2010-11-04T01:08:54Z

transfinite got dealt some incomprehensibly hideous bullshit from dA's staff after taking issue with the removal of the "unspecified" option on their drop-down gender menu:

My apologies but there are only two sexes; male and female so one should apply to you. In the unusual case that you are hermaphrodite then I would suggest that you select the one which you feel applies the best.

More here: http://transfinite.dreamwidth.org/215469.html

FFS. dA, you've gone too far this time. I WILL NOT BE TURNING BACK AROUND.

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les carapace misérables forever

2010-10-31T03:32:19Z

sooo pob drew this

which meant that obviously I had to draw this

AR is the law and the law is not mocked

in other news i am in denial about the imminence of nano

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actually apparently i can't

2010-10-29T16:51:35Z

SORRY KARKAT YOU'RE JUST NOT DESPICABLE ENOUGH
try harder

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DRAWING

2010-10-28T20:10:39Z

I CAN DO THAT RIGHT

idk it feels like I have not drawn anything FOR EVER even though I last posted drawings like .... what less than 3 days ago ?? I have a problem
w/e

I CAN STOP ANY TIME I WANT

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I AM PRETTY SURE THAT BASICALLY NOBODY WILL CARE ABOUT THIS BUT

2010-10-26T02:38:48Z

Good Omens/Homestuck crossover art because I am that kind of loser.

an Ambiguous Castaway and an Abstracted Pilgrim argue over how best to advise this youth and possibly his Dog

I wanted to make Aziraphale AZ but I could not find anything appropriate that began with Z so AP will have to do.

OH MY
the partially buried remains of what looks to be an antiquated repository of books
how exciting.
AC's rags should be darker, oh well

an Affable Paladin and Aporetic Conscript having a drink in a quiet corner of the battlefield
i am not sure if it is wholly clear what is going on here, but if it helps to know, they are dressed as cowboys because of Adam's prototyping :'Da

IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY BETTER IDEAS FOR NAMES... :D;;

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TWO DRAWINGS

2010-10-21T01:22:00Z

i just like drawing karkat
you know, like everybody else.

in theory this is a WIP, I think I would like to go at it with some digital paintin' and make it all

/gesture

you know.
BUT WE SHALL SEE IF I GET ROUND TO THAT.

I really like manticores, they are completely unnecessary. They also make me a bit sad: my favourite thing about them is that they have three rows of metal teeth, but this is harder to illustrate than all of the other ridiculous things about manticores.

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ART

2010-10-19T01:57:07Z

OWL TIGER

IT'S BUSINESS TIME

HUMAN COSPLAY god i'm so sorry

icon purposes i'm a loser

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so i've got some problems

2010-10-15T02:07:32Z

I feel like the title is not long enough
also i have ......... trouble ...... imagining equius as a phonetics professor but i had to keep some things in case it ceased to be apparent that it was my fair lady
or ... something

god what has my life come to

this is how i feel about cuttlefish

2010-10-14T21:05:56Z

further artspam later, in all likelihood :T

I have three mostly-written apps for theposthumans here
one is for Feferi, one is for Karkat and one is for Bagheera
realistically i can only app one
I'm not sure which one I want to play more, but I am leaning towards Bagheera mainly because he does not have a font that will piss people off
On the other hand, purapea is considering apping B:BatB!Aquaman, and he and Feferi could hang out making hideous fish puns all day

.. unrelatedly: bugs

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GUYS I'M SO SORRY

2010-10-14T00:19:15Z

SERIOUSLY I UH

AM WORKING ON OTHER STUFF BUT IT'S GIFT EXCHANGE BUSINESS THAT I CAN'T ACTUALLY SHARE .....

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SILENT AND SUUUURE

2010-10-13T11:11:01Z

neuhallidae commissioned me to draw Eternity attempting to win the affections of universe!Jan. I THINK IT CAME OUT OK!

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hello there

2010-10-13T02:12:09Z

okay so today I got up and was like HELLO WORLD I'M GONNA BE PRODUCTIVE !!
and then bridie was like HEY WANNA DO SOMETHING so I just went to her house and we ate frosted shreddies and watched cardcaptor sakura, like adults.

WOOPS

when I came back here I made some headway in the commission field and now my hand kind of hurts woo hoo i guess i will get on replies to that pairings thing IN MY OWN TIME (sorry)

anyway here is another troll because I have a problem

nepeta makes me think of purapea
pura she makes me think of you

I kind of want to rp from homestuck and I'm not sure how much of a good idea I feel like that is. :T

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today in I Am Way Too Fucking Short For This

2010-10-11T13:19:19Z

PREPARE YOURSELF, HIGHGATE CEMETERY

THESE GLASSES MAKE MY EYES SO SWEATY

EDIT since I realise the majority of you do not, in fact, read Goodbye Chains, a clarification for that majority: I am piecing together an outfit resembling that of Colin Lord, a character you have never heard of. Now go click that link and read it.

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hur dur

2010-10-11T00:27:40Z

ssoo today I went over to hang with pob and gatty; Pob did collagey things and we had pizza and watched stupid shit on TV, and I drew a pile of Homestuck characters (go read it so i feel less alone) in my weeny sketchbook because I've got a problem. SO NOW I GUESS I AM SHARING
most of this is kids and trolls but there's another MP and WV in there too. None of them are doing anything interesting. SOME OF THEM ARE CUTE, THO, I THINK?
I missed like 3 trolls cause I guess I couldn't be bothered or sth
equius, sollux & aradia apparently do not do it for me so much

i made john look a bit like my brother I guess
... and I ran out of space on the edge of the page before I got to the puppet ass

these guys are the only ones on the same page who are actually supposed to be standing next to each other or anything, jsyk
mostly there is no particular rhyme or reason re: who is on a page with who

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